My Baby Buck

what happened is one morning david is ranting about his coworkers to yuna while they eat breakfast and both shane and yuna respond in unison with "what a bunch of fuckin idiots."

and shane goes back to making patterns with his cheerios but david and yuna are just sitting there like this:

Then he met Grace and the first thing Grace did was go 'I wonder if they use pronouns? I don't know how their gender works... I'm just gonna use the same pronouns as me!'

And when Grace explains pronouns and gender Rocky goes "Oh.... Oh I am keeping you." Because Grace -without even realising it- described something in Rocky that he couldn't explain. -Rocky is subsequently ecstatic about using he/him pronouns.

Despite being blasé about it, it only takes a few extra weeks before Grace is wearing skirts and singlet tops more often, and letting the facial hair go wild because who cares? And it kinda... Works, on them. And then Grace freaks out realising they've internally switched to using they/them pronouns personally. It's only Rocky explaining that being gender neutral on Erid is normal, and having a strong sense of gender makes HIM weirder that helps Grace a little.

And then they start having a really supportive, yet utterly befuddled conversation about what the heck is going on with gender between the two of them, and the ultimate conclusion is; do what makes you happy and we can figure the rest out later (or not)!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/80361986/chapters/211008301

Fandom: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

Relationship: Ryland Grace/Rocky/Adrian (plus various past relationships)

Chapters: 28/28

Word count: 99,274

Summary: the Eridians have built an interstellar research station, and the time has come to journey to Earth to pick up some human scientists. For Grace it means confronting his past, and finally coming to terms with who – and what – he truly is.

Main tags: slow burn, soul bond, alien/human relationship, exophilia, worldbuilding, flashbacks, space exploration

mooore grace in a dress + rocky & adrian + the rest of the earthside eridians from my fic

also they live on a boat agaiiin but its a ✨fancy✨ boat

It all starts to go wrong (for Shane) when due to a series of hilarious (not for Shane, but for everyone else) misunderstandings Yuna signs Shane up for a K-pop idol trainee class, thinking it'll be fun to try something new while he has a little time off, and maybe it'll give him some confidence off the ice, help get him break out of his shell a little bit.

Unfortunately (for Shane, and everyone else in the class) he 1: actually has a phenomenal singing voice, and 2: he’s so competitive about anything physical that he ends up picking up choreography really quickly and then ends up so bored while he waits for everyone else to catch up that he puts his own flavor on the moves and accidentally develops his own style. With those two factors on his side his natural awkwardness is perceived as a persona, and he’s quickly tagged as The Sweet Shy One. Basically, through absolutely no fault of his own, he blows everyone else in the class away and impresses the instructors so much that they beg his parents to let him audition for the entertainment companies.

There is a world in which Shane is able to put his foot down right there and stop the madness before it goes too far, and the events of heated rivalry proceed as they do, just with the pictures and video proof of this time in his life weighing down his Damoclesian Sword of gayness

However. In MY WORLD.

Yuna and Shane get stuck in a miscommunication doom cycle (you know that thing they do where she thinks he wants this because he thinks he'll disappoint her if he doesn't, but she only wants him to do what makes him happy, but it's impossible for him to know what that is because he's focused on making her happy) that results in him changing the entire trajectory of his life and becoming an honest to god K-Pop megastar.

Bonus points for this outcome, because in this world Sveta becomes a huge METRO-$ stan, and through friendship-osmosis introduces Ilya to his latest and greatest obsession: Shane, the Sweet and Shy member who doesn't date because he's saving himself for marriage.

And Luca and the other rookies being like, oh you mean the Dad-Trifecta? it's the best thing that has ever happened to us.

You loose your skates or you need help with paperwork or you're just feeling kinda sad and need a dad hug - you go Bood. he will grill you some chicken and go speak to Coach for you. You call him or Cassie if you're sick and they will pick you up and deposit you on the floor with Milo and you are their baby now. I'm 23 years old but that's my dad tho

If you're having trouble with other players, or if you're in like, a crisis? Mama Bear Ilya, will 100% get arrested for any of us and/or pick you up from the middle of nowhere any time of night. You wanna ragebait other players? He has the perception of a God and can tell from one look when a players second wife will leave him. He can also tell when you're feeling like shit mentally and he will pick you up take you to Harris farm and make you dog walk with him while throwing sweets at you. Holmberg got high sticked the other week Ilya spent like, 2 hours going through the guys Instagram with us while wine drunk and ripping his entire life to pieces with us.